Colos Short and Curlies

A bold and controversial prediction

After shockingly putting Shearer in the players we saw too much of thread, I'm going to add him here as well. Seems mental after 10 years, but we lost so much of his prime years with injury

Yup, but one thing we've been really bad at is looking to phase out or sell players at the right time. He's a fucking legend and of course the comment is with the benefit of bucket loads of hindsight but it was 2 seasons too many as the main man

Rob (not Robbie) Elliott. This is sacrilege but Shearer. Yes we got to see him break the goalscoring record, but Bobby's last season should have been Kluivert and Bellamy with Shearer being phased out. Instead we ended up replacing him with a disinterested Owen

I don't see Brighton or Burnley picking up anything other than in their games against Sheff Utd. We'll beat Sheff Utd and get another random point, poss 2. Fulham will beat us and Sheff Utd, question is can they scrape another 3 or 4 to relegate one of the B' s?

No bump yet for Ben Arfa day

Looking at Burnley's fixtures they are in real trouble if we win. A six pointer away at Fulham and then last game at Sheff Utd the only realistic chances of a win. I can also only see Sheff Utd being the best chance for Brighton to pick up another 3 points. It really is going to be who is the least shit of the shittest group staying up

We beat Burnley and they are right in the brown stuff, Southampton and us were 2 massive games in their run in. Brighton would he right back in it as well. Lose and its a straight shootout between us and Fulham

And obviously still to play Fulham so 2 snooker left

Every club in the top flight of every league under Uefas span in a one legged, no seeding FA Cup style tournament.

Sellers?

I'm going for 'we were in it until Haydon got injured, didn't recover from that' in the presser

Sweepstake for the needless red card? Paul D on a yellow so a good bet, but I'm going to stick my neck on the block with an uncharacteristic Hendrick red. Actually has even touched the ball yet?

Nah, he came, did some pirouettes, clobbered Joe Cole, lost a last man standing game against Arsenal earned a few quid and left, he was happy with that. fyp fyfyp

Merino and then the obvious Ben Arfa. I'd also add Ginola to that list Edit obv more than a seasons games but still far too few

Prompted by my 3 year old breaking his second metatarsal yesterday - but whatever happened to the good old metatarsal injury that was widespread in the mid 00's? It seemed likely that it was the sock type lightweight boot that gave rise to these, but you weren't a professional footballer in the run up to a major championship if you didn't break one for a little while, now you never hear of anyone having them. Better boots?

That alone pretty much sums up life as an NUFC supporter. Mike doesn't even give us our BFH though

To be fair we'd be celebrating it if it was NUFC being engraved on the crust tonight. Like when we went down to the Championship, the general tone throughout the season was that we shouldn't celebrate winning the league as it was an embarrassment to be there. You might not be proud to be in a position to win it, but if you are then you may as well enjoy whatever good comes from it

I’m as doom & gloom as most but if we win (yes I know) our game in hand there’s only 2 points between us and them and we play them soon. They are in a good position but doubt they are safe yet But if we win our game in hand then it stops Brighton picking up 3 points. It's a combination of the number of teams beneath them and them being 5 clear of us that imo now males them safe

Burnley probably safe now, 1 from 3 realistically

Relying on Shelvey getting injured

Perez?

Completely forgot about Dyer! Peacock was in and out a few times, even tried a back 5 but then had to lose one of Cole or Beardsley

I'm going to take you all on with an English XI (Premier League era only) - and I'll even allow Shearer to remain in the World XI seeing as pretty much everyone has selected him Harper Watson Woodgate Lascelles Beresford Batty Lee Clark Beardsley Ferdinand Cole Darlow Peacock Barton Sellers Nolan Beardsley Shola Elliott

Quinn was just average, not the worst we've had by any stretch